At Nuoding primary spirit master academy, one semester was one year's time, in the entire year students were not permitted to return home but only at the end of the year.
"Xiao Wu, for tomorrow's holiday, will you return home?"
Tang San said to Xiao Wu while packing his luggage. JoyBoy had already packed everything and was just waiting for him while sitting on his bed and cultivating even at a moment like this.
"I'm not going home. Maybe, just stay at the academy."
Tang San was dumbfounded a moment while JoyBoy was
"All year, you won't return to see your family?"
Xiao Wu's eyes suddenly lit up, saying
"Little San, your family isn't far from the academy is it? Otherwise, I'll follow you to return and play, how about that? Anyway Wang Sheng and Xiao Chen-Yu are both going to participate in the intermediate spirit master academy examination, there's nobody to accompany me to play."
After talking for some time, she finally made Tang San agree to let her come with him to the village. Then, she started fighting with Tang San just like she did everyday, while JoyBoy was still cultivating despite all the disturbances as he had already trained his mind to ignore such minor level annoyance.
Of course, if he felt any kind of danger then he would stop cultivating instantly and be ready for battle. His intelligence was already at a level where he could cultivate and be aware of his surroundings simultaneously.
He was still trying to learn how to cultivate without having to sit down and and still do other things but was not having any success. But he was not impatient and was taking his time analyzing his mistakes and improving one step at a time.
Early next day, JoyBoy, Tang San and Xiao Wu were seen wearing Nuoding academy's uniform, leaving Nuoding city, and heading towards Holy Spirit village.
While walking JoyBoy checked his current cultivation rank and guessed that it should be around rank eighteenth and going towards rank nineteenth.
He guessed that Tang San should be sixteenth rank approaching seventeenth rank. After comparing himself with Tang San he was feeling satisfied.
After Tang San got his spirit ring at the beginning of the year he was at rank thirteenth while JoyBoy was stuck at rank tenth for about four months and a week. Therefore compared to Tang San, he was cultivating much faster.
Of course he knew that once he reached rank twenty, he will face another bottleneck but this time he was not worried. He had already cleared his first bottleneck and got his cheat ability. He was looking forward to his next cheat ability after he cleared his second bottleneck.
"Is it still far ah?"
Xiao Wu looked east, then gazed west, offhandedly asking. JoyBoy politely replied
"We'll arrive soon. See that hilltop over there? Our Holy Spirit village is at the foot of the hill."
After reaching the village he separated from them after politely saying
"Brother San, I will be heading to my place before going to my usual place. If you want to find me, you can come to my usual place. I will be seeing you later."
After giving Xiao Wu a polite nod, he left for the orphanage. He knew what was going to happen next in the story and that's why he decided to cultivate on the boulder outside the village after he leave his things at his room.
After reaching his room he quickly cleaned it before cleaning himself up changing his clothes and leaving his other things in his room. He quickly went around the village feeling nostalgic before going towards the boulder outside the village. After he sat on it, he started his usual cultivation.
He cultivated until the evening when he suddenly felt someone ruining towards him. Not feeling any kind of danger, he continued his cultivation.
"Brother JoyBoy, Please follow us!"
When he opened his eyes, he saw Tang San while holding Xiao Wu's hand was running towards the hill where he used to do his daily cultivation in the morning.
JoyBoy stood up and started following them. Tang San brought Xiao Wu and JoyBoy continuously running to the hilltop before coming to a stop, panting slightly.
Standing on the hilltop, Tang San faced the setting sun, both eyes already filled with purple,
"Xiao Wu and JoyBoy, this is my former practice place. I am very seriously asking you a question, and I hope you can seriously answer me."
After that, he asked them to be his little brother and sister. JoyBoy smiled and nodded his head. Xiao Wu was about to say something, but was stopped by Tang San.
"First listen to what I have to say. I have nothing, you have also seen my family's circumstances, and I am only descended from impoverished commoners. I cannot give you wealth and also cannot give you power. You also have innate full spirit power, but you and I are not alike, I can see your life's experiences should have some story. But I never asked, because I feared that our backgrounds disparity is too great, and we could not even become friends. But, I truly hope to be able to have a little sister like you, although I am unable to give you what nobles possess, I can give you my promise. I will always protect my little sister, will not let her come to the slightest harm."
Seeing teardrops glimmer in Tang San's eyes, Xiao Wu's eyes gradually reddened,
"If one day, there are very many people wanting to kill me, and you are unable to defeat those people, then what?"
Tang San unexpectedly revealed a tiny smile,
"Then let them to first step over my corpse."
"No you won't." JoyBoy suddenly interjected.
This suddenly made them surprised and Xiao Wu even had a disappointed expression on her face.
"Why do you say that brother JoyBoy ?"